Poetry Terms Quiz 382 (20 MCQs)

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1. A comparison of one thing to another using the words like or as
2. An action movie trying to be exciting.Exciting is the .....
3. "She is ..... as a juggler / with a black ball and a white ball" ~ MEDEA
4. A word or phase used over and over again for emphasis
5. Type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person
6. Define Ontario
7. Which type of figurative language gives human qualities to nonhuman objects?
8. The formation of mental images, figures, or likeness of things or images
9. Poem with a musical rhythm that explores strong emotional feelings
10. A couplet has two lines of verse, that has a rhyme scheme of .....
11. Spelling how words sound. Crackle, pop, fizz, zoom
12. What term refers to the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences?
13. The English teacher told her class, "You really need to proofread your work, or otherwise people will find you not very credible." The teacher's assignment had 12 typos in it.
14. Which term refers to an exaggerated statement used for emphasis?
15. In this poem, what matters is the number of syllables.
16. The voice or persona of the poem is called the-
17. "They covered themselves with dust and glory."
18. ..... is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
19. A figure of speech that does not use like or as to compare two unlike things
20. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of which literary term?